Dr. Sebastian Roßner

@NINAJESKI @AlexTaylorNews True, the USA spent a lot of money on NATO and Europe profited by by that. But these dollars were not altruistically spent. They were and still are a means of securing US-power in the world. Without their allies the USA will be only half of what the have been.

So are you saying Europeans haven’t been united against Trump and Americans???? Because I have years worth of communications on social media where Europeans call us fat lazy stupid all while we send our US tax payer $$$$$$ so they could have single earner families and take month long vacations living it up because of our subsidies. GTFOH this is nothing new, just more obvious. Who cares buh bye

This👇is quite extraordinary, showing how much Trump is uniting Europeans on all sides 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 him Elly Schlein, Leader of Italy's largest opposition party, (herself 50/50🇮🇹🇺🇸) furiously condemns Trump's attacks on her opponent Meloni. The whole Chamber stands up to applaud the whole time. My English s/t👇 "Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our Constitution is clear - Italy repudiates war. No foreign Head of State has the right to attack, threaten or disrespect our country or government. We are opponents in this Chamber, but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. We are asking for unanimous condemnation of these attacks and threats"

@Schwuaa @gepardtatze Das haben sie auch gemacht, aber eben auch V1 abgeschossen. Jedenfalls kein Grund, grob zu werden.

@DrRossner @gepardtatze Quatsch. Diese Gunships können aus sicherer Distanz OWA Drohnen wie die Geran und Shaheds erledigen. Die Briten haben die V1 mit dem Flügel "angestubst" um sie zum Absturz zu bringen

Der Tunnelblick sich nur auf FPV-Drohnen (sUAS) zu konzentrieren ist bedenklich und verfälscht das Gefechtsbild. UAS Class II nur mit Interceptoren abzufangen ist Wunschdenken. Jede nur erdenkliche MK die man findet muss zum Einsatz kommen. Egal wie alt sie ist. Hier zählt nur Munition in die Luft.

@MarioNawfal Isn‘t that the reason why USN once had nuclear powered cruisers?

Here's an important lesson in naval logistics: The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is taking the long way around the world: 10,500 miles via the Cape of Good Hope instead of the shorter Suez route. Why the detour? They’re being babysat by the USNS Arctic, one of the Navy’s few fast supply ships that can actually keep up at 30 knots. Regular oilers only do about 20 knots, but the Arctic lets the whole group (especially those fuel-guzzling destroyers) sprint across the ocean without running dry. This is a perfect example of how much modern carrier ops depend on just a handful of special logistics ships. The carrier is nuclear and can go forever, but the escorts drink fuel like crazy at high speed. If those fast replenishment ships are busy or unavailable, the Navy’s ability to move quickly across the globe takes a big hit. In an era of stretched logistics and contested chokepoints (like Suez or Hormuz), having only a handful of these high-speed replenishment assets is a real vulnerability. Source: @mercoglianos

@Schwuaa @gepardtatze Etwa so haben die Briten einst die V1 gejagt. Scheint mir heute eine ähnliche Situation zu sein.

@gepardtatze Was haltest du von solchen Gunships für die Jagd auf Gerans usw? Das hier ist das Konzept der Polen. Ich finde es interessant

@stagerbn Vier Räder? Ein Lenkrad?

#AndiesemTag 1927 läuft der erste serienmäßig gebaute Volvo vom Band, der Volvo ÖV4. ÖV 4 steht für "Öppen Vagn 4 cylindrar". Schon bei diesem Modell sind typische langjährige, zum Teil noch bestehende, Volvo Design-Elemente gut erkennbar.

@zackbeauchamp @MartinSauerbrey Well put.

But every competitive authoritarian regime, even the most effective one, has a fail case: that their characteristic corruption and incompetence overwhelms their ability to control information, breeding a massive public backlash.

I've seen a lot of takes that Orbán's defeat means that he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

@Microinteracti1 It will be interesting to read a thorough analysis of this vote. Might be that support from the White House and the Kremlin was not helpful for Orban.

Putin, Trump, and JD Vance did not back these people. The hundreds of thousands now flooding the streets of Budapest, the Hungarians who wanted a free press, functioning courts, and a government that does not take its instructions from Moscow. That lot. Washington and the Kremlin looked at them and picked the other guy. They picked Orbán. They threw the full economic weight of the United States behind him. They offered moral cover from Mar-a-Lago and the Kremlin simultaneously, which is quite the combination if you think about it. He lost anyway. Brutally. People in Russia and the United States are watching those crowds tonight. And what they are seeing is not complicated: there is a better life available. You just have to vote for it. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@schutz4043393 @interbellica This hypothetical scenario is highly dependent on the temporal setting, before or after the Sarajevo murder. Serbia, i.e. her secret service, knew about that and should have known about the danger of murdering the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne.

Russia. Austria-Hungary only got involved because the heir to the throne was assassinated. Germany only got involved because of a Mutual Defense Agreement with Austria. France only got involved because of a Mutual Defense Agreement with Russia. Britain only got involved because they were bound by treaty to protect Belgian neutrality. It could have remained a localized war in the Balkans. Russia didn't have an MDA with Serbia. Russia CHOSE--completely voluntarily--to declare war on Austria-Hungary, KNOWING that would mean war with Germany. They did this because they had been humiliated in the Crimean and Russo-Japanese Wars (both of which they started), and had had a Revolution in 1905. They wanted a "rally round the flag" moment.

If you had to blame one nation for WWI, who would it be and why?

@realKTMcFarland That is an absurd stance: You want to annex Greenland from a longstanding ally bc he could forbid you to use bases on his territory? Alliances do not work like that.

NATO insists US doesn't need to own Greenland; having bases there is good enough for natl security. But NATO countries just refused us access to OUR bases to refuel, they won't even let our planes overfly their airspace. They just proved the point why we DO need to own Greenland. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@aviationarchive @1066Hardradi “Tipo” just means “model”. But true, FIAT build a car named “Tipo”.

@1066Hardradi could be, I flubbed the details. I'm sometimes too trusting of googles AI results, I usually double check but I also missed that it gave me Tipo as a name. Tipo is a Fiat car. lol

Italy's first homegrown tank, the massive Fiat Tipo 2000 Model 17, rolled out as a 40-ton behemoth in 1917 with a 65mm howitzer in its rotating turret and up to eight 6.5mm machine guns. It measured 24.3 feet long, tipped the scales at nearly 44,000 pounds, and crawled at just 4.7 mph powered by a 250hp Fiat A-12 engine. Only two prototypes were built, one saw limited trials in Libya in 1919 but proved too slow for guerrilla fighting.

@17Jefferson76 @VFinnishProbs One of these is the net of world wide alliances of which NATO is the cornerstone.

@17Jefferson76 @VFinnishProbs war, when SU and its vassals posed a real threat. But NATO always has played a key role in maintaining US world wide influence and still does. What the present US government does not grasp intellectually is the fact that US political predominance is based on several pillars.➡️

Getting really bored of MAGA ranting about "freeloading" Europeans. The US does not spend a trillion dollars "on NATO." It spends it on a vast global military empire, with a mere 3.6% going toward their bases in Europe. Meanwhile us "freeloading" Europeans spend $454 billion on our own defence. The "freeloading" story is and always has been a lie to keep Americans angry and Europeans compliant.

@AndrewHammel1 Präzise Information.

@kiw1966 @Microinteracti1 The president you have unfortunately voted for was stupid enough to let him be lured into a war that has led to the closing of the Street of Hormuz. Now he is out of his depth and intends the rest of the world to clean up the mess he made.

@Microinteracti1 It is sinking in!! This is the President I voted for. If the mother fuckers in those other countries need their oil to move through there, they can go fucking fight for it themselves.

The most embarrassing military retreat in American history just got a name: Operation Epic Fury. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump has told aides he is willing to walk away from the Iran war even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed.  Let that sink in. The president is considering declaring a loss and going home while it stays shut. Military strategists around the world are watching in disbelief. This is a superpower that started a fight it cannot finish, blinking in public, hoping nobody notices. Trump and his team concluded that an operation to reopen the strait would extend the conflict beyond his preferred timeline of four to six weeks.  So the schedule beats the strategy. The calendar matters more than the objective. That is not how wars are won. That is how empires signal decline. The fallback plan confirms it. Press Tehran diplomatically to restore free flow of trade. And if that fails, ask European and Gulf allies to take the lead in reopening it.  The same allies Trump spent years mocking, tariffing, and threatening. Now he needs them to finish his war. Every military college from Sandhurst to Beijing is studying this right now. The lesson they are writing down is simple: America without its allies is a paper tiger. Trump set an April 6 deadline for Tehran to reopen the strait or face strikes on key energy and water infrastructure.  Iran said no. The deadline is now quietly dissolving into diplomatic language. America started a war it cannot finish. What a joke. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@bunburyoudoujp Republic of China.

Countries want cheap stuff from China and the phrase "Taiwan is a country" makes China very very sad and say, "I'm going to destroy your supply chains until you say sorry for hurting my feelings." It's a problem that countries have gotten used to getting cheap stuff from China.

@giulio_mattioli No.

@DrRossner Does the fact that he allows military bases to be used for this illegal conflict have to do with dismissal of international law?

What strikes me about this remark by Pistorius is how it mixes dismissal of international law with anti-intellectualism as it defines the legality of the war on Iran as a question for "academic circles". As if politics shouldn't concern itself with the legality of its actions.

@schnellenbachj Verkehrswende.

Eine Bahnfahrt, die ist lustig. Ein Thread. Sonntägliche Wanderung an der Ahr, unterwegs das eine oder andere Glad Wein – klar, da reist man mit dem Zug. Los geht es also in Langenfeld (Rheinland). Moment, fragen Sie, wieso Langenfeld? 1/

@WolfReuter3 @ArminLaschet @LPJerusalem Das ist ein schwacher Kommentar, der auf das eigentliche Problem, nämlich die Verweigerung des Zugangs zu heiligen Stätten, nicht eingeht, sondern nur Nebelkerzen zündet.

Die „heiligste Stätte der Christenheit“ wird publizistisch erst entdeckt, wenn man sie nicht betreten kann. Vor Ort übrigens unwürdig der Christenheit, mehr ein Zeugnis der Zerstrittenheit des Glaubens. Aber ein lateinischer Patriarch, der in Israel sagt, er sei „privat“ dorthin unterwegs gewesen, und öffentlich verbreiten lässt, er sei an der Messe gehindert worden? Kommt uns nicht komisch vor. Neinn.

Entgegen einer jahrhundertealten Praxis hat die israelische Polizei heute am Palmsonntag dem Patriarchen von Jerusalem, Pierbattista Kardinal Pizzaballa @LPJerusalem 🇻🇦 den Zutritt zur Grabeskirche verweigert. Wir stehen bei jeder Bedrohung seines Existenzrechts 🇮🇱 bei, aber dem Kardinal den Zugang zur heiligsten Stätte der Christenheit zu verweigern, ist inakzeptabel. Dies ist reine Schikane ohne jedes Gespür und ohne jeden Verstand.

@JonathanFior @Microinteracti1 It is - as usually in politics - a quid pro quo: The US pledge to help defending Europe against a means to project power and to dominate.

@Microinteracti1 How many trillion dollars have the US been pouring into Germany thanks to these bases?

Trump is considering pulling US troops out of Germany. So here’s a suggestion for Europe: don’t wait. Close the bases yourselves. If America wants to go home, shake hands and lock the gate behind them. Because if Washington wants to bomb Iran directly from US soil, they’re welcome to try. A B-2 bomber flying from Missouri to Tehran and back is roughly 20,000 kilometers. That’s a lot of jet fuel for a war Europe was never asked to join.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1